The Penn's Grove record., 1887-09-03
NEWS IN BRIEF.

Japan is said to be arranging for
elaborate coast defences.
There is a prospect OF a very large
cranberry crop in Wisconsin this
season.
The lyric which cost Tennyson the
most trouble was Come into the Gar
den, Maud"
Wilson, the unequalled o%rnitholo-
gist, earned his living In youth as a
iourneyman weaver.
Edgar Poe's father was a law
student, and his mother an actress
named Elizabeth Arnold.
The location OF a congregational
college at Fargo Is assured. A $4,000
building will be erected.
Lotus blossoms are gathered at
Prairie du Chen, Wisconsin, and sold
on the streets Of Madison.
Brighton, a collie dog that took
the priz3 in his class at the Barn Elms
show in England, has been sold for
goo.
Oregon imports much of the butter
she consumes, though there is no better
dairy country in the world than Or
egon.
There is a church in the east end
of London where parties so desiring
can be married for seven pence ha'
penny.
New Haven, Connecticut, has
1000 Englishmen among her residents,
but less than 500 of them, it is said, are
voters.
-Old-fashloned ''tatting" is said to
have taken the place of other forms of
fancy work on some summer hotel pl-
aZz4S.
The crown prince of Germany is
said to have beer beyond question the
handsomest man In England's jubilee
procession.
There are los cotton mills in the
south. Georgia heads the list with 56,
Tennessee comes next with u, and
Alabama 20.
"A woman in the Salt Rock Valley
(Arizonal, who was shot at has had the
bullet mounted in gold and wears it as
a breast-pln.
The total cost of the Suez Canal
was less than s100. 000, 900. Already
SITS, 0O0, 600 have been spent on the
Panama Canal.
Two veterans of the Mexican war,
1t is stated, are among the members OF
the next Congress-Rice, of Minnesota,
and Hare, of Texas.
in the Mexican church choir no
woman is allowed to sing, 80 a descrip-
ton of the inyestlture Of the new
bishop of Oaxaes states.
The largest orchard of fruit-bear-
ing trees in this country is claimed by
Leavenworth, KAN, which has one
that contains $4,000 trees.
che beAs-- m Eorwfch,
Connecticut, a local Faper asserts, Is
six feet eight inches in length-a foot
or so longer than its owner.
Sir T. f. Buxton says he owed
more to his fathers gamekeeper, who
could neither read nor write, than to
any other source Of knowledge.
More bears have been killed in the
State OF Maine this year than any
year previous within the remembrance
Of the Oldest furrier in Lewiston.
The day the postal treaty with
Mexico went into effect leading st.
Louis citizens sent President Diaz a
shaving outfit and Mrs. Diaz an ele-
CANT feather fan.
Among the nations which do not
tax imported works of art are England,
France, Germany, Italy and the Meth
erlands. The United States, China,
Turkey, Mexico and Canada rank with
those that do.
Nine Cinnamon caught coming
into this country from British Column
bia were refused a domicile in this
country, and had to pay $50 per head
to the British Columbia government
for permission to return there.
Boston has a new club, Just or
ganized. 1t is called the Charming
Club, is composed exclusively of young
Unitarian laymen, and the member
ship is limited to 100. The purpose of
the club is to do hearty work for the
Unitarian church.
The population Of Vienna was In
creased to $4,000 during the past year,
and now embraces, with the suburbs)
1888. 900. The number OF foreigners
resident in Vienna has just been ascer-
tanned for the first time. 1t is 1000,
including 1928 Italians. 491 Russians,
212 French and 14l English.
"A Boston man. after getting on a
Brooklyn street car. discovered that
he had NJ change less than a $50 bill.
The conductor lent him his fare and
the man took his name and address.
One day last week the conductor re-
ceiyed a check for IS from the Bos-
ton man in appreciation of his kindness
in lending him tn 'ckel,
"A gentleman has written to J. J..
Minister, of Athens, Georgia, wanting
10 get the plate of the Confederate
postage stamp printed at Athens. The
Banner Watchman printed those
stamps at the old Office on Broad street.
The gentleman offers a good sum for
plate. The plate probably has long
since been melted into type.
THE plow VIII do better service kill.